Civilized man is a cog in a machine. He's educated to be compliant and subservient and mind controlled to the point where he will commit brutal atrocities or crimes in the context of "war" in service of the state or other illusions. He will work his whole life away to provide yachts and mansions for oligarchs. The civilized mind is furthest from nature and consequently most deluded.
Is the "primitive" consciousness superior in any way other than being free from such delusions? The primary delusion of the modern man is that the machinery of civilization, like governments and money are "real" and substantive. He confuses the concepts of his inner shadow world with reality. Ted Kaczynski referred to that state of mind as "over socialized" in his manifesto.
I use the word "primitive" in a specific way. I really mean that it's a mind unsullied by cultural debris. It's one where the primary experience is almost identical to the inner shadow world conceptualization of it.
The inner world is populated by cultural concepts, e.g. the "shared dictionary" that enables us to communicate using language, but also by "base reality" concepts that provide mental models of real world things and larger concepts. Animals like ducks are able to distinguish between different bird species by sight--they're able to determine which are predators by simply viewing them. This information is encoded in their DNA, apparently, or they learn it from other birds who react with alarm to hawks. We probably have similar information available from birth. Fear of snakes, for example, is instinctive. Other concepts like "hardness" or "rigidness" come from direct experience and interaction with the world and even from the experience of our own body and its mechanics.
The "base reality" concepts are sort of similar to the shadow world/cultural matrix. That is, they are a mental model of 3D reality but they're only one layer removed from direct experience. They're perhaps pre-lingual, or maybe even pre-conceptual--they're perhaps the fundamental building blocks of language.
I can already see the split--the Cain murdering Abel mind comes about. It's right there. There's two ways to build that inner shadow world. One is to replicate primary natural experience and base reality models, and the other is to abstract and compress them for the sake of language and writing.
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